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State Retirement Pensions: Women

Question for Department for Work and Pensions

UIN 30233, tabled on 10 February 2025

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the number of women impacted by the maladministration of pension communications as highlighted by the WASPI campaign in South Ribble constituency.

Answered on

18 February 2025

ONS population estimates suggest that in 2021 there were 6,495 females born in the 1950s resident in the South Ribble constituency, who are impacted by the equalisation of the State Pension age.

We do not know how many of these women were impacted by maladministration in the communication of state pension age changes.